what the hell is there to say

Republicans in Wisconsin are talking about impeaching the newly-elected Supreme Court justice, which they can do if they decide to because they’ve so gerrymandered the state that they can’t be voted out and always have a supermajority. Wisconsin is not a republic, but Wisconsin is their model.

Republicans in Tennessee in a similar position of power just expelled two Democrats (and nearly a third, but she was spared because she’s white; the racism is plain and blatant) for supporting protesters demanding gun control. For getting a little too uppity and for not knowing their place.

Republicans aren’t even pretending to respect elections any more. It’s not even about gun control – gun control has no chance in hell of passing in Tennessee. It’s about power.

The Republican Party is a fascist party. Musk Twitter is a fash propaganda organ. That’s why he bought the goddamn thing. If you do anything to help a Republican into power, you’re helping them do this. If you stay on Musk Twitter, you’re helping him help them.

People can either start fucking admitting that’s where we are and fight back, or line up for the goddamn camps. And I don’t know what else to do because it doesn’t matter how much I lay it out for people, how many facts I present, how many dots I connect, not a goddamn thing I say seems to get anybody to move.

I’ve been saying it a lot: If we fight this, we will win. But that means actually doing shit. Not pretending it’ll happen by itself, not carrying on as fucking usual, not helping the fash propagandist keep the social media network he bought stay online, not continuing to buy those oh-so-tasty-I-guess chicken sandwiches.

It means not pretending it’s just more politics and business as usual. Because it is not.

The only way they can win is if people let them. But right now, a disgusting – an absolutely grotesque – number of people who say they’re against this shit are clearly willing to just let them do whatever the hell they want to whoever the hell they want if it means the most fleeting of deprivations or the shortest moment’s inconvenience.

And that’s where we are, too.

And frankly – gods, it just makes me sick.

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Across All Those Emptied Lines, Chapter 7: The Chateau

Well. Look what woke up. Hi, writing.

Thanks for your patience, everyone. You may still need more of it. But I do have chapters 8 and 9, at least in rough form.

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Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Edda 25: Across All These Emptied Lines
Chapter 7: The Chateau

The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new – and the UN hopes better – leadership. The Gods are free – largely – to do as they will.

Reminded accidentally by Lena, Danielle remembers that Amélie had a chateau, and that she had used it herself for some time as a safehouse.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion is a continuance of The Arc of Conflict, The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, There Was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.

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